The following pictures were captured during the fireworks festival “Silver Boat” that took place in Kostroma city August 14, 2010. The photos were taken by Petr Ushanov.

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The following pictures were captured during the annual summer festival of the Middle Ages “The first capital of Rus” that took place in Staraya Ladoga town of Leningrad oblast.  The photos were captured by S.Chernov.

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The following scenic pictures were captured by Padunskiy one summer evening on the territory of open air museum located in Kostroma city.

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The following wooden building constructed in the beginning of the 20th century hosts the municipal House of Masters and the Museum of local people handicrafts and art. There are nice exhibits of national costumes and fancywork. Also there is a large collection of Khludnevskaya traditional clay toys. The address of the House of Masters is Kaluga city, Grigorovsky pereulok (side street), 9. The photos of the house were captured by ehidnazevaka (all the pictures are clickable).

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The 15th International competition of the magazine The World of Art and The Gallery of Young People’s Art Works of the authors up to the age of 20 on the subject of “Ethnological dresses and folklore dances of my people?” is finished. More  than 10.000 art works from 46 countries arrived for the competition, which were reviewed by an expert jury. Here are the works of the winners from Russia.

Savitskaya Alain, age 13

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Rizopolozhensky monastery located in Suzdal city, Vladimir oblast is known as the oldest active monastery in Russia (from the year of 1207). Here are the sceneries of the monastery captured by padunskiy.

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Uspenskaya church constructed in 1694 and located in Nelazskoye village of Vologda oblast is known as a masterpiece of Russian wooden architecture (photos by av_otus, clickable).

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Russia is becoming known not only for its glorious past remains like churches and fortresses but for newly built masterpieces like the following one – the church constructed in 2000-2001 in Nadovrazhino village, Istrinsky district of Moskovskaya oblast. It was built on the place where the church of 18th century had been standing before being destroyed in the 1930th (the photos were captured by av_otus)

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